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Multi Award Winner Author

Vicki Riley’s literary achievements abound, with accolades including Runner-up for Published Book of the Year at the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Awards and an Honorable Mention for her Short Story Collection in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

She was also recognized in the Living Now Awards and the 2022 IPPY Next Generation Indie Book Awards, solidifying her status as a noteworthy author.

Achievements

Top Shelf Awards - Short Story Collection/Novella Honorable Mention

2021 Royal Palm Literary Awards - Runner up Published Book of the Year (Published book of the year is highest category honor in competition.)

Living Now Awards - Gift/Specialty/Novelty Book

Top Shelf Awards - Short Story Collection/Novella Honorable Mention

Eric Hoffer Book Awards - Short Story Collection Honorable Mention (3rd Place)

2022 IPPY Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Finalist – Novella; Short Story Collection;

Regional Medal – Southeast Fiction - tied for First Place

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Vicki Riley Biography

Vicki Riley is an award winning writer recognized for short stories and poetry and now her debut book Cayo Hueso Literary Writings And Artwork From Cayo Hueso. She grew up in Key West and is a member of the Key West Writers Guild and Authors Guild. Vicki’s past writing and teaching experience includes leading a Florida Writers Association (FWA) writing and critique group for over a decade and a career as a high school educator specializing in British and American literature, TV production, cinematography, and creative writing. She founded her school’s first literary magazine, Visions. MORE >>

Poet, Writer, Producer and Artist

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Vicki Riley and Linda Cabrera are both that rarity in our transient community that we call a Conch. Vicki’s literary interests gravitate to the human heart, its struggle, and her love affair with Key West. Linda Cabrera’s work is a detailed combination of realism and folk art that brings to life the laid back and colorful Key West island lifestyle that she was raised in. Cayo Hueso combines Cabrera’s paintings with Riley’s prose and poetry and packages both beautifully!”

“What a treat to the senses Cayo Hueso is! Working with the delightful elements that Key West’s unique life and history inspire, Vicki Riley serves up a panoply of twelve short stories about life at the end of the road, tales that will resonate with everyone. Complementing her rich, clear prose are the charming, stylish paintings by Linda Cabrera. This volume will awaken appreciation for the sometimes strange, but always desirable, Key West as few other books about ‘the rock’ can. This is a book to be cherished.”

“Two Conchs offer a loving and vivid homage to Cayo Hueso through their art and fiction. Both endearing and entertaining for fellow Conchs and for Keys devotees as well.”

“A must for every Key West collection. Cayo Hueso captures the true Conch spirit of Key West.”

CAYO HUESO

This book’s design with gingerbread drop caps and Roseate spoonbill transitions is itself a work of art. Under the book jacket is a 9 x 9 Key West coffee table book in a handsome, linen-bound hard cover with foil stamped font and chambered Nautilus shell. Interior has a silk ribbon placeholder and pages are printed on 100 pound ultra gloss paper with thirty full-color paintings by a local artist paired with twelve short stories inspired by the continental US’s southernmost point.